Clyde Pangborn
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Clyde Pangborn was an American aviator best known for completing the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight from Japan to the United States in 1931.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clyde Pangborn canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13270814 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clyde Pangborn Context triple: [Hugh Herndon Jr., partnerInFlight, Clyde Pangborn]
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A.
Wiley Post
Wiley Post was an American aviator famed for being the first pilot to fly solo around the world and for his pioneering work in high-altitude flight and pressure suit development.
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B.
Walter Tibbets
Walter Tibbets is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Tibbets.
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C.
Glenn Curtis
Glenn Curtis was an American basketball coach best known for leading the early NBA franchise that became the Detroit Falcons.
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D.
Lot Whitcomb
Lot Whitcomb was a 19th-century American pioneer, entrepreneur, and politician best known for founding the town of Milwaukie in the Oregon Territory and promoting early regional commerce and transportation.
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E.
Harold LeMay
Harold LeMay was an American businessman and avid car collector best known for assembling one of the world’s largest private automobile collections, which became the basis for LeMay – America’s Car Museum.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clyde Pangborn Target entity description: Clyde Pangborn was an American aviator best known for completing the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight from Japan to the United States in 1931.
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A.
Wiley Post
Wiley Post was an American aviator famed for being the first pilot to fly solo around the world and for his pioneering work in high-altitude flight and pressure suit development.
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B.
Walter Tibbets
Walter Tibbets is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Tibbets.
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C.
Glenn Curtis
Glenn Curtis was an American basketball coach best known for leading the early NBA franchise that became the Detroit Falcons.
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D.
Lot Whitcomb
Lot Whitcomb was a 19th-century American pioneer, entrepreneur, and politician best known for founding the town of Milwaukie in the Oregon Territory and promoting early regional commerce and transportation.
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E.
Harold LeMay
Harold LeMay was an American businessman and avid car collector best known for assembling one of the world’s largest private automobile collections, which became the basis for LeMay – America’s Car Museum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviator
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human ⓘ pilot ⓘ |
| aircraftFlown | Bellanca J-300 Long Distance Special NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftNickname | Miss Veedol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1894-10-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1958-03-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfHistoricFlight |
1931-10-04
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1931-10-05 ⓘ |
| endLocationOfHistoricFlight | East Wenatchee, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Pangborn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | aviation ⓘ |
| givenName | Clyde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | American ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honor |
induction into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame
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induction into the National Aviation Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| knownFor |
long-distance flight records
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pioneering transoceanic aviation ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Pang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1931 nonstop flight from Japan to the United States
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first nonstop trans-Pacific flight ⓘ |
| occupation |
aviator
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barnstormer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| partnerInFlight | Hugh Herndon Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bridgeport, Washington
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| recordHeld | first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| residence | Wenatchee, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startLocationOfHistoricFlight | Sabishiro Beach, Misawa, Aomori, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Clyde Pangborn Description of subject: Clyde Pangborn was an American aviator best known for completing the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight from Japan to the United States in 1931.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.